"I'm glad nature provides for us in such a convenient manner"
"I'm glad nature provides for us in such a convenient manner"
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The thousands of years process that humans took part in to domesticate animals to eat and generate food was natural.
The way we've industrialized the system to process millions of animals at a time using growth hormones, antibiotics, medications, genetic engineering, machinery, automation and employing thousands of people as literal slave labor to do the work is what is unnatural.
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Usually people consider these thousands of years as what differentiates nature and culture (with one of its first form being agriculture).
Modernity sped up this differentiation from nature and made it unsustainable, but it was already not nature anymore when we started, at least regarding the rules of selection.
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Completely true, except for one single type.
Weat domesticated us, not the other way round.
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What humans did to teosinte to get maize is like what nature did to mammals to get whales.
[curious]
[checks wiki]
Holy shit
That's some quality fucking selective breeding
Same thing to pretty much any vegetable/fruit. I think the closest from the wild we eat are forest strawberries and forest mushrooms, everything else is thousands of years of selection to become those gorgeous packs of nutriments.